Your Signal
Dark, Heavy, Depressive States or Emotions Shortly Before Menstruation or Shortly Before Ovulation
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Also known as: PMDD · premenstrual depression · low mood before period · depressive before period · premenstrual dysphoria · premenstrual dysphoric disorder · crying spells before period · cycle-dependent depressiveness · sadness before menstruation
Your Body Is Speaking
It arrives like a weather change you didn't order. A few days before your period — or before ovulation — something descends over you: heaviness, darkness, a groundless sadness that feels as though someone is dimming the lights. Just moments ago you were clear, had plans, were in your rhythm. And then, seemingly from nowhere, everything shifts. The mood collapses, thoughts begin to circle, and you wonder whether anything in your life is actually right.
Medicine speaks of hormonal fluctuations — progesterone, estrogen, serotonin levels. And of course these play a role. But the question BodySignal asks goes deeper: Why does your system respond to a completely natural cycle with collapse? Why does a normal biological process feel like a crisis? And what is this recurring darkness trying to tell you — something you don't want to hear during the good phases?
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